Category: politics

  • Orlando

    I was going to post a follow up entry or two on data science, but then a red-blooded American homophobic terrorist went and murdered fifty people in Orlando with a military weapon, because they were GLBTQ, or because they were Latinx, or both. And another one got stopped on his way to Pride in LA,…

  • Rolling the dice at the Just World Casino

    tl;dr: The tech frame of “lean startup”, venture capital funding, “exit strategies”, and relentless “valuation” talk is fundamentally anti-human for nearly all of us. [ETA (immediately after publication):] Startup idea: They are treated like bees; they are robbed of the honey they make. — Hottest Startups (@HottestStartups) May 16, 2016 The kneejerk libertarianism and Randian…